Letter from the Continent

Kinmen, or Quemoy), over which men and supplies can be brought from any part of China. As a military spokesman explained to the correspondents in Taipei, one 20-car train on this line can do the work of 450 trucks. It is believed that this will be operating in June.

There has never been any cessation of hostilities. Every so often the Reds on the mainland and the Nationalists on one of the islands still lob shells to and fro. No week passes without air or sea skirmishes, or both; and the Nationalists on Formosa fly observation sorties over the greater part of China south of the Yellow River (and sometimes as far north of it as the suburbs of Peiping) “with impunity,” as one anonymous American officer told a correspondent. Three thousand five hundred such sorties were flown in 1956.

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Kinmen, or Quemoy), over which men and supplies can be brought from any part of China. As a military spokesman explained to the correspondents in Taipei, one 20-car train on this line can do the work of 450 trucks. It is believed that this will be operating in June.

There has never been any cessation of hostilities. Every so often the Reds on the mainland and the Nationalists on one of the islands still lob shells to and fro. No week passes without air or sea skirmishes, or both; and the Nationalists on Formosa fly observation sorties over the greater part of China south of the Yellow River (and sometimes as far north of it as the suburbs of Peiping) “with impunity,” as one anonymous American officer told a correspondent. Three thousand five hundred such sorties were flown in 1956.